Talk:Freddie Laker

Death?
His possible death has been reported by Sky News this evening, quoting "family members" as having told them unofficially. David | Talk 23:55, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Copyedits
I have cleaned up the article a bit per WP:MOS, including: Ground Zero | t 21:40, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
 * remove repeated links and links to plain English words per WP:OVERLINK
 * remove unnecessary boldfacing per WP:MOS
 * spell out acronyms on first use per WP:MOS, including "LA" for "Los Angeles" (not Louisiana)
 * identify "New York JFK" as an airport in New York City with which non-American readers and non-airline enthusiasts may not be familiar
 * remove "Sir" from boldfacing in first line and from links per WP:MOS and article titles

JetBlue
This page refers to jetblue as a no frills carrier. I have flown with them a couple of times and they have: free food & live satelite tv. So I would not compare them with the likes of ryanair and easyjet which are true no frils airlines —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.116.66.236 (talk) 18:03, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

unreferenced bullet point
Under "Collapse and the end of Skytrain", the following appears: There are no references, and 1974 does not belong to the "late 1970s". Someone familiar with the topic should correct this.--Rfsmit (talk) 17:47, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Some passengers may also have perceived the DC-10 as unsafe as a result of a string of fatal accidents involving the aircraft within a short timespan during the late 1970s (including the aforementioned 1979 American Airlines crash at Chicago O'Hare, and the previous 1974 crash of a Turkish Airlines DC10 at Beauvais, near Paris).


 * Laker was pretty good on this IIRC, as in 1974 immediately upon hearing of the Paris crash he grounded all the Laker Airways DC-10 fleet voluntarily on his own initiative until the crash cause was discovered. Most other airlines waited until they received directives ordering the groundings.


 * Laker didn't go out of business as-such due to the DC-10, he was effectively put out of business by a cartel of the largest other UK airlines who couldn't (or didn't want to) compete with SkyTrain on equal and fair terms. This was illegal of course, which is why Laker took them to court over it, but he not unnaturally lost, as the other airlines had friends in high places, and Laker didn't.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.147.13 (talk) 10:16, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

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Recommendation for a knighthood
"However, it was James Callaghan's "pro-union" Labour Government that awarded Laker his knighthood for services to the airline industry in 1978, rather than Margaret Thatcher's subsequent "pro-business" Conservative administration (although the latter had recommended him for his service to private enterprise in her capacity as the then leader of the opposition)." I'm not an expert on this, but it's my understanding that it's customary for the opposition to make some recommendations for awards which are generally proceeded with, someone please correct me. The fact that Callaghan awarded this is somewhat moot. Indieshack (talk) 14:03, 12 September 2022 (UTC)